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What seemed improbable? The whole concept of how babies were made. If there was a specific action that made babies, then there wouldn't be people who wanted babies and didn't have them, and there wouldn't be people who didn't want them who did have them. Obviously, getting pregnant was like getting a cold: a sort of contagion from sleeping together, and you might be lucky or unlucky.
I don't know how I ever came to believe the truth. Probably found it in a book somewhere, eventually.
See, that's the thing. Kids now know what that *thing* is that has to be done, but pregnancy and STDs are such abstract concepts because they are not talked about early enough. Believe me, the kids I worked with did not wait for answers...they learned through doing.
My first year teaching, there was a junior that had a baby in the 8th grade. Her daughter was exactly one year younger than my son. I wouldn't have known what to do with a three year old as a senior...
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Even being the tops in Europe, the UK still has less than half the teen preg rate as the US (20 per 1000 there compared with 53 per thousand here in 2002)
I have seen the gov't benefits issue here too. I have even seen parents that have pressured their children to have children to continue services...perpetuating the cycle. It really is sad.
Some girls see babies as an alternative to a life/career Some also see babies as their life/career, which I also feel is a bit unnatural now. I have had conversations with girls that only went to uni to trap a man. *shakes head*
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What seemed improbable? The whole concept of how babies were made. If there was a specific action that made babies, then there wouldn't be people who wanted babies and didn't have them, and there wouldn't be people who didn't want them who did have them. Obviously, getting pregnant was like getting a cold: a sort of contagion from sleeping together, and you might be lucky or unlucky.
I don't know how I ever came to believe the truth. Probably found it in a book somewhere, eventually.
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My first year teaching, there was a junior that had a baby in the 8th grade. Her daughter was exactly one year younger than my son. I wouldn't have known what to do with a three year old as a senior...
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I have seen the gov't benefits issue here too. I have even seen parents that have pressured their children to have children to continue services...perpetuating the cycle. It really is sad.
Some girls see babies as an alternative to a life/career Some also see babies as their life/career, which I also feel is a bit unnatural now. I have had conversations with girls that only went to uni to trap a man. *shakes head*
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